World Soccer

Congratula­tions on winning UEFA’s Best Player in Europe award. Was last year your best season ever?

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Probably. In terms of trophies, I can say yes. Every year since I started to play football has been amazing, but this year was special. First of all because we won, for the first time in the history of Portugal, that important cup. For Real Madrid to win the Champions League again, it was an amazing year. I want to say thank you to my team-mates, thanks to everyone involved in the success of the national year. It’s been an amazing year. I’m so happy. But I have to mention these two other amazing players [fellow nominees Gareth Bale and Antoine Griezmann] because they played amazing too. about. If you ask me right now, I don’t want to be a football coach. After a few years, people might say, you have the profile to be a coach, but I don’t want to, it’s too complicate­d. Right now I just want to focus on football, this is my passion, this is what I love to do. But in the future, nobody knows, maybe in five, six, 10 years, I will change my mind and I will be an amazing coach! Let’s see.

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